Thursday, December 15, 2016

How To Install Linux Kernel 4.9 In Ubuntu Linux And Its Derivatives

How To Install Linux Kernel 4.9 In Ubuntu Linux And Its Derivatives

As usual, Last Sunday (11, DEC 2016), Linux creator Linus Torvalds officially announced the final release of Linux Kernel 4.9, codenamed 'Roaring Lionus'. Which is also the final and biggest ever release of 2016. As of writing this, Linux 4.9 is mainline kernel and the most advanced Linux kernel available in market for GNU Linux Distros...
As Soon as it was released, immediately it will be available for rolling release distros such as Arch Linux, Solus, or even openSUSE.
Soon it will be available for Fedora users also.. But for Ubuntu, you have to manually install Linux 4.9, if you want to upgrade your current Linux kernel installed in your system. Here we are going to see how to install Linux 4.9 in Ubuntu Linux and It's derivatives.

So new kernel release means, new features, support for more hardware and many more bug fixes and improvements.. Here is some new features and improvements Linux kernel 4.9 brings..

To Remove Linux Kernel 4.9 from your system run the following command..

Method 2 :

In this method i will show you step by step process of installing Linux kernel 4.9 .....

First update your system package source list and upgrade all installed packages to latest version by running following commands..

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Warning : The Linux kernel is a critical element of the system. To do the upgrade costs when one of your hardware devices is not working properly, and the new kernel may fix this problem. But at the same time installing a new kernel unnecessarily can lead to undesirable regressions, such as: no network connection, no sound or even the inability to boot the system, so install a new kernel on your own risk.

Now make a new folder/directory to download and store required binaries files...

Or if you want to download manually.. you can download from here.. and put them in one directory.
if you are downloading manually.. download correct binaries for your architecture...
If you are not sure about your OS architecture.. Run getconf LONG_BIT command.. This will tell you whether the kernel is 64 bit or 32 bit..See More On Finding System Architecture..